PHP 5 ChangeLog

Version 5.0.0 Beta 3

• Bundled new tidy extension (John, Wez)
• Upgraded PCRE library to version 4.5. (Andrei)
• Dropped Windows 95 support. (Andi)
• Moved extensions to PECL:
• ext/crack (Jani, Derick)
• ext/db (Jani, Derick)
• ext/mcal (Jani, Derick)
• ext/qtdom (Jani, Derick)
• ext/notes (Wez)
• Added 'c' modifier to date() which returns the date in the ISO 8601 format. (Derick, Manuzhai)
• Added an optional parameter to microtime() to get the time as float. (Andrey)
• Added MacRoman encoding support to htmlentities(). (Derick, Marcus Bointon)
• Added possibility to call PHP functions as XSLT-functions. (Christian)
• Added possibility to prevent PHP from registering variables when input filter. support is used. (Derick)
• Added iconv stream filter (convert.iconv.*). (Moriyoshi)
• Added EXSLT support in ext/xsl. (Christian)
• Added qdbm handler for dba extension. (mg at iceni dot pl, Marcus)
• Added new functions:
• dba_key_split() to split inifile keys in an array. (Marcus)
• time_nanosleep() signal safe sleep (Magnus, Ilia)
• headers_list(). (Sara)
• php_strip_whitespace(). strip whitespace & comments from a script. (Ilia)
• php_check_syntax(). check php script for parse errors. (Ilia)
• image_type_to_extension(). return extension based on image type. (Ilia)
• stream_socket_sendto() and stream_socket_recvfrom(). (Wez)
• iconv_mime_decode_headers(). (Moriyoshi)
• get_declared_interfaces(). (Andrey, Marcus)
• sqlite_fetch_column_types(). (Ilia)
• Added proxy support to http:// wrapper. (Sara)
• Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to userstreams. (Sara)
• Added rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() support to ftp:// wrapper. (Sara)
• Changed rename(), rmdir() and mkdir() to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
• Changed stat() and family to be routed via streams API. (Sara)
• Fixed include_once() / require_once() on Windows to honor case-insensitivity; of files. (Andi)
• Fixed get_declared_classes() to return only classes. (Andrey, Marcus)
• Fixed __autoload() to preserve case of the passed class name. (Andi)
• Fixed bug #26615 () (runekl at opoint dot com, Derick)
• Fixed bug #26591 ("__autoload threw an exception" during an uncaught). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #26534 (stream_get_meta_data() -> Access Violation). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #26528 (HTML entities are not being decoded by xml_parse()/xml_parse_into_struct()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26182 (Object properties created redundantly). (Andi)
• Fixed bug #26156 (REPLACE_ZVAL_VALUE works on uninit stack-based zvals). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #26083 (Non-working write support in ext/dom). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #26072 (--disable-libxml does not work). (Jani)
• Fixed bug #26001 (serialize crashes when accessing an overloaded object that has no properties (NULL hashtable)). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #25664 (COM crashes when calling a Delphi implementations of ITypeInfo). (Wez)
• Fixed bug #24837 (Incorrect behaviour of PPP using foreach). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #24693 (Allow session.use_trans_sid to be enabled/disabled from inside the script). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #24394 (Serializing cross-referenced objects causes segfault). (Moriyoshi)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 2

• Lots and lots of changes in the Zend Engine 2 since beta 1:
  • Added Iterators
  • Improved memory manager
  • Added Reflection API
  • Removed the not so working namespaces support
  • Removed support for expressions within constant declerations.
  • You can read about most changes in ZEND_CHANGES under the Zend directory.
• Improved the DBX extension: (Marc)
• Added DBX_RESULT_UNBUFFERED flag for dbx_query().
• Added dbx_fetch_row()
• Added SQLite support.
• Improved the Interbase extension: (Ard Biesheuvel)
• Added support for multiple databases into ibase_trans()
• Added support for CREATE DATABASE, SET TRANSACTION and EXECUTE PROCEDURE statements into ibase_query()
• Added ibase_commit_ret() and ibase_rollback_ret()
• Added ibase_drop_db()
• Added ibase_gen_id()
• Added ibase_name_result()
• Added ibase_errcode()
• Added ibase_affected_rows() and ibase_num_params()
• Added ibase_param_info()
• Added ibase_wait_event()
• Added ibase_set_event_handler() and ibase_free_event_handler()
• Added new COM extension with integrated .Net support. (Wez)
• Added new functions:
• setrawcookie(). (Brian)
• pg_version(). (Marcus)
• dbase_get_header_info(). (Zak)
• snmp_read_mib(). (Jani)
• http_build_query(). (Sara)
• ftp_alloc(). (Sara)
• array_udiff(). (Andrey)
• array_udiff_assoc(). (Andrey)
• array_udiff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
• array_diff_uassoc(). (Andrey)
• convert_uuencode(). (Ilia)
• convert_uudecode(). (Ilia)
• substr_compare(). (Ilia)
• pcntl_wait(). (GeorgeS)
• Added "resume_pos" context option to "ftp://" wrapper. (Sara)
• Added optional parameter to OCIWriteTemporaryLob() to specify the type of LOB (Patch by Novicky Marek <novicky@aarongroup.cz>). (Thies)
• Added reflection API. (Andrei, George, Timm)
• Changed length parameter in fgetcsv() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed IPv6 support in MacOSX Panther. (Dan, Marko)
• Fixed fgetcsv() to correctly handle international (non-ascii) characters. (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed support for <![CDATA[]]> fields within XML documents in ext/xml. (Sterling)
• Fixed visibility of __construct and __clone. (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #26003 (fgetcsv() not binary-safe on null bytes). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #25756 (SimpleXML's validate_schema_file() broken). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #25581 (getimagesize() returns incorrect values on bitmap (os2) files). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #25494 (array_merge*() allows non-arrays as argument). (Jay)
• Fixed bug #24766 (strange result array from unpack()). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #24729 ($obj = new $className; causes crash when $className is not set). (Marcus)
• Fixed bug #24565 (cannot read array elements received via $_REQUEST). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #24445 (get_parent_class() returns different values). (Sterling, Stanislav)
• Fixed bug #24403 (preg_replace() problem: Using $this when not in object context). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #24399 (PEAR DB isError crash [instanceof_function fault?]). (Sterling, Marcus)
• Fixed bug #24396 (foreach ($k=>$v), the key $k is missing). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #24279 (__get() crash when no value is returned). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #22367 (undefined variable has a value). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #19859 (allow fast_call_user_function to support __call). (Stanislav)
• Fixed bug #17997 (Warning when switch() and reference are combined). (Zeev)
• Fixed bug #17988 (strtotime failed to parse postgresql timestamp). (Derick)

Version 5.0.0 Beta 1

• Switch to using Zend Engine 2, which includes numerous engine level improvements. A full list is available at http://www.php.net/zend-engine-2.php.
• The SQLite (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/) extension is now bundled and enabled by default. (Wez, Marcus, Tal)
• Improved the speed of internal functions that use callbacks by 40% due to a new internal fast_call_user_function() function. (Sterling)
• Completely Overhauled XML support (Rob, Sterling, Chregu, Marcus)
  • Brand new Simplexml extension
  • New DOM extension
  • New XSL extension
  • Moved the old DOM-XML and XSLT extensions to PECL
  • ext/xml can now use both libxml2 and expat to parse XML
  • Removed bundled expat
• Removed the bundled MySQL client library. (Sterling)
• New php.ini options:
  • "session.hash_function" and "session.hash_bits_per_character". (Sascha)
  • "mail.force_extra_paramaters". (Derick)
  • "register_long_arrays". (Zeev)
• Improved the streams support: (Wez, Sara, Ilia)
  • Improved performance of readfile(), fpassthru() and some internal streams operations under Win32.
  • stream_socket_client() - similar to fsockopen(), but more powerful.
  • stream_socket_server() - Creates a server socket.
  • stream_socket_accept() - Accept a client connection.
  • stream_socket_get_name() - Get local or remote name of socket.
  • stream_copy_to_stream()
  • stream_get_line() - Reads either the specified number of bytes or until the ending string is found.
  • Added context property to userspace streams object.
  • Added generic crypto interface for streams (supports dynamic loading of OpenSSL)
  • Added lightweight streaming input abstraction to the Zend Engine scanners to provide uniform support for include()'ing data from PHP streams across all platforms.
  • Added 'string.base64' stream filter.
  • Renamed stream_register_wrapper() to stream_wrapper_register().
  • Added "ftp://" wrapper support to opendir(), stat() and unlink().
  • Added context options 'method', 'header' and 'content' for "http://" fopen wrapper.
• Improved the GD extension: (Pierre-Alain Joye, Ilia)
  • imagefilter() - Apply different filters to image. (Only available with bundled GD library)
  • Antialiased drawing support:
    • imageantialias() - (de)active antialias
    • imageline() and imagepolygon() antialias support
• Changed the length parameter in fgetss() to be optional. (Moriyoshi)
• Changed ini parser to allow for handling of quoted multi-line values. (Ilia)
• Changed get_extension_funcs() to return list of the built-in Zend Engine functions if "zend" is specified as the module name. (Ilia)
• Changed array_search() to accept also objects as a needle. (Moriyoshi)
• Changed ext/mcrypt to require libmcrypt version 2.5.6 or greater. (Derick)
• Changed uniqid() parameters to be optional and allow any prefix length. (Marcus)
• Added new iconv functions. (Moriyoshi)
  • iconv_strlen()
  • iconv_substr()
  • iconv_strpos()
  • iconv_strrpos()
  • iconv_mime_decode()
  • iconv_mime_encode()
• Added misc. new functions:
  • ldap_sasl_bind(). (peter_c60@hotmail.com, Jani)
  • imap_getacl(). (Dan, Holger Burbach)
  • file_put_contents(). (Sterling)
  • proc_nice() - Changes priority of the current process. (Ilia)
  • pcntl_getpriority() and pcntl_setpriority(). (Ilia)
  • idate(), date_sunrise() and date_sunset(). (Moshe Doron)
  • strpbrk() - Searches a string for a list of characters. (Ilia)
  • get_headers() - Returns headers sent by the server of the specified URL. (Ilia)
  • str_split() - Breaks down a string into an array of elements based on length. (Ilia)
  • array_walk_recursive(). (Ilia)
  • array_combine(). (Andrey)
• Added optional parameter to get_browser() to make it return an array. (Jay)
• Added optional parameter to openssl_sign() to specify the hashing algorithm.(scott@planetscott.ca, Derick)
• Added optional parameter to sha1(), sha1_file(), md5() and md5_file() which makes them return the digest as binary data. (Michael Bretterklieber, Derick)
• Added optional parameter to mkdir() to make directory creation recursive. (Ilia)
• Added optional parameter to file() which makes the result array not contain the line endings and to skip empty lines. (Ilia)
• Added new range() functionality:
  • Support for float modifier. (Ilia)
  • Detection of numeric values inside strings passed as high & low. (Ilia)
  • Proper handle the situations where high == low. (Ilia)
  • Added an optional step parameter. (Jon)
• Added encoding detection feature for expat XML parser. (Adam Dickmeiss, Moriyoshi)
• Added missing multibyte (unicode) support and numeric entity support to html_entity_decode(). (Moriyoshi)
• Added IPv6 support to ext/sockets. (Sara)
• Added input filter support. See README.input_filter for more info. (Rasmus)
• Added a replace count for str_[i]replace(), see bug #8218. (Sara)
• Fixed is_executable() to be available also on Windows. (Shane)
• Fixed dirname() and strip_tags() to be binary-safe. (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #24098 (crash in pathinfo()). (Ilia)
• Fixed bug #21985 and #22064 (various mb_send_mail() issues). (Moriyoshi)
• Fixed bug #21600 (Assign by reference function call changes variable contents). (Zeev)